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The Articles of Confederation became in effect on this day to make a goverment after the American revolution to bring the thirteen states together.
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The Constitution was written after the Articles was made for a better goverment.
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The Constitution was adopted by the convention. To sign the Constitution was the thing they wanted to do. On that day they were gathered at Indepedence hall to sign it and give it to Congress.
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They sent it to the states for aproval and the state legislatures held a meeting for them to vote for if they aprove the Constitution.
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They sent copies of the Constittution to the state legislatures. For their their aproval not the states.
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On this day the Virginia Plan was presented by Edmund Randolph. It was written by James Madison because he knew it would not work. It had the three branches of goverment and a two house legislature.
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Delaware is the first state to give aproval to the new Constitution after it was sent to the states.
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The Constitution was ratified by New Hampshire and the Constitution was the law now since they only needed nine states to ratify the Constitution so it would come in effect.
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Only ten of the twelve amendments were allowed by the states so the first ten amendments are called the Bill of rights.
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The first state to ratify the Bill of Rights is New Jersey on November 20 1789 for the bill of rights aproval.
